Improvement in seed-planter



L. SMITH.

Seed Planter.

Patented Aug. 23, 1870."

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Lcttt'rs Patent No. 106,631, dated-August 23, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN EEEDPLANTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 'of the same.

the following is a full, clcar, and exact description thereof, which will enable others, skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and important improvements in machines for planting seeds, more especially designed for planting corn, but applicable to other kind of seed, whereby lunch time is saved; and

it consists in the construction and armngcnmnt of' parts hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 represents a sectional side elevation of the machine, showing the grain-reservoir, and the method of dischargmg or dropping the grain.

Figure 2 is an end eievotion.

Similar letters of reii-n'ence indicate corresponding parts;

This machine is mounted on a series of wheels, A, more or less in number.

B represents the axle-s The outside wheels, at the front and the rear, are made fast to the ends of the axles. The intermediate wheels are made adjustable on theaxles.

O -represcn ts theframo, which is supported from the axles, by stands, at the four corners of the machin'r, the lower ends of which stands form boxes in which the axles revolve,

'1) are the stands.

The frame is strengthened. by the rods l, which connect; with the front piece o. the frame, and pass back-and around the rear axle,-then return to and around the front axle, as seen in li 1, with eyes, G, ibrinedin their projecting ends,- t-ln'ough which the draft-bar B passes, as seen in fig. 2.

The tongue I is adj ustably attached to this draftbar, so that it can he slipped iaterally in either direc tion. I

J represenisthc seed-reservoirs, which, in number, correspond with the front wheels A.

These reservoirs are altached to the timbers O, which timbers are halved onto the cross-frame timher 0, front and rear.

The intermediate reservoirs are (with the timbers to which they are attached) adjust-able laterally with the intermediatewheels A. More or loss in number of these intermediate reservoirs may be employed, which, with the adjustment of which they are susceptible, allows the width between the rows to be coded as may be desired.

In the rear of each of thefront wheels there is a mless) rows of corn at the same time.

plow, K, of the shovel kind,.for forming a furrow for the seed, and in front of the rear wheels is a coverer, l], which scoops the earth to the center of thcrows, The rear wheel follows and-passes down the earth onto the seed.

The seed is placed in the compartment M, and is carried up and armuul the pulley N by the cups 0 in the endless belt 1*, and dropped into the furrow from the lower end of the reservoir.

Q is an elastic flap, which acts as a stop to the seed.

1% is a partition.

The endless belt is revolved, by the rear axle, from pulleys S, by means of bolts '1.

The arbor of the pulleys U of the belt P cxtvnd through the reservoir, on the ends of which are pul: leys V, as shown in fig. 1. In planting corn thrcnps O are designed to oont-ainsufficient corn for one hill each. The distance of the hills from each othcr is governed by the relative proportions (as to diameter) of the pulleys.

The mode of fastening the timber C after they have been adjusted is seen in fig. 1.

' \V are button-hooks for that purpose.

X is the drivers seat.

The plows and the oovercrs K and L are attached to rods Y and Z, which rods extend up through the timbers C, so that they are made adjustable with the reservoirs J.

This machine is drawn by either one or two horses, and will plant, in the most perfect-nmuncr, four (more It makes the furrows, drops and covers the corn, and presses down the earth onto the corn, at one and the same t-inic.

The advantages of such a machine over ordinary methmls of planting must be obvious to all.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patcut-- 1. The adjustable reservoirs J, with I the partition R, flap Q, endless belt P, with the cups 0 thereon, combined, arranged, and operating substantialiy as and for the purposes described.

2. In combiua-tio'n with a secdplanter, the adjustable wheels A and pulleys S, on the axh-s of the mar chine, substantially for the purposes described.

3.1a combination with a semi-planter, the plows K and covers-rs L, adjustable, substantially as described.

The above specification of my invention signed by rue-this 12th day of Aprii, 1870.

LEVE SMITH.

Witnesses:

Geo. W. MABEE, S. H. WALES. 

